Madagascar | Total natural resources rents (% of GDP)
Total natural resources rents are the sum of oil rents, natural gas rents, coal rents (hard and soft), mineral rents, and forest rents. Development relevance: Accounting for the contribution of natural resources to economic output is important in building an analytical framework for sustainable development. In some countries earnings from natural resources, especially from fossil fuels and minerals, account for a sizable share of GDP, and much of these earnings come in the form of economic rents - revenues above the cost of extracting the resources. Natural resources give rise to economic rents because they are not produced. For produced goods and services competitive forces expand supply until economic profits are driven to zero, but natural resources in fixed supply often command returns well in excess of their cost of production. Rents from nonrenewable resources - fossil fuels and minerals - as well as rents from overharvesting of forests indicate the liquidation of a country's capital stock. When countries use such rents to support current consumption rather than to invest in new capital to replace what is being used up, they are, in effect, borrowing against their future. Statistical concept and methodology: The estimates of natural resources rents are calculated as the difference between the price of a commodity and the average cost of producing it. This is done by estimating the price of units of specific commodities and subtracting estimates of average unit costs of extraction or harvesting costs. These unit rents are then multiplied by the physical quantities countries extract or harvest to determine the rents for each commodity as a share of gross domestic product (GDP).
Publisher
The World Bank
Origin
Republic of Madagascar
Records
63
Source
Madagascar | Total natural resources rents (% of GDP)
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
2.91882362 1970
2.75692465 1971
2.01983258 1972
2.17224461 1973
1.47441455 1974
2.04874955 1975
1.82505265 1976
3.5500137 1977
3.41027009 1978
2.87991034 1979
2.31131856 1980
2.21318889 1981
2.89509378 1982
2.1954549 1983
2.44235763 1984
2.08800214 1985
2.80088989 1986
3.85519574 1987
4.2620903 1988
4.5286376 1989
5.13716501 1990
6.20427415 1991
5.70482651 1992
4.26807702 1993
5.43387401 1994
7.7218758 1995
6.10099854 1996
5.98372526 1997
5.71468497 1998
3.51113304 1999
3.28334073 2000
2.78738586 2001
3.50534579 2002
5.2185584 2003
6.16053834 2004
5.4655256 2005
5.62459958 2006
6.43424743 2007
5.80936538 2008
6.87903891 2009
5.80844503 2010
5.89544167 2011
6.69129717 2012
6.77436298 2013
7.17890335 2014
8.60993538 2015
8.7727719 2016
7.63973631 2017
5.16989441 2018
4.70785228 2019
5.65950525 2020
5.53118864 2021
2022
Madagascar | Total natural resources rents (% of GDP)
Total natural resources rents are the sum of oil rents, natural gas rents, coal rents (hard and soft), mineral rents, and forest rents. Development relevance: Accounting for the contribution of natural resources to economic output is important in building an analytical framework for sustainable development. In some countries earnings from natural resources, especially from fossil fuels and minerals, account for a sizable share of GDP, and much of these earnings come in the form of economic rents - revenues above the cost of extracting the resources. Natural resources give rise to economic rents because they are not produced. For produced goods and services competitive forces expand supply until economic profits are driven to zero, but natural resources in fixed supply often command returns well in excess of their cost of production. Rents from nonrenewable resources - fossil fuels and minerals - as well as rents from overharvesting of forests indicate the liquidation of a country's capital stock. When countries use such rents to support current consumption rather than to invest in new capital to replace what is being used up, they are, in effect, borrowing against their future. Statistical concept and methodology: The estimates of natural resources rents are calculated as the difference between the price of a commodity and the average cost of producing it. This is done by estimating the price of units of specific commodities and subtracting estimates of average unit costs of extraction or harvesting costs. These unit rents are then multiplied by the physical quantities countries extract or harvest to determine the rents for each commodity as a share of gross domestic product (GDP).
Publisher
The World Bank
Origin
Republic of Madagascar
Records
63
Source